De oceanen worden rampzalig snel warmer

IUCN report warns that "truly staggering" rate of warming is changing the behaviour of marine species, reducing fishing zones and spreading disease. The soaring temperature of the oceans is the "greatest hidden challenge of our generation" [...]. Dan Laffoley, IUCN marine adviser and one of the report's lead authors, said: “What we are seeing now is running well ahead of what we can cope with. The overall outlook is pretty gloomy.
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[...] In coming decades, U.N. officials and climate scientists predict that the mushrooming populations of the Middle East and North Africa will face extreme water scarcity, temperatures almost too hot for human survival and other consequences of global warming.
[...] A study published by the journal Nature Climate Change in October predicted that heat waves in parts of the Persian Gulf could threaten human survival toward the end of the century. Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry and the Cyprus Institute in Nicosia recently predicted a similarly grim fate for the Middle East and North Africa, a vast area currently home to about a half-billion people. [...] The United Nations predicts that the combined population of 22 Arab countries will grow from about 400 million to nearly 600 million by 2050. [Het lijkt waarschijnlijk dat grote migratiestromen het gevolg zullen zijn; K].